Bangladesh election: Is this what the Gen Z revolution wanted?

Bangladesh is home to a conservative Muslim society, one of the largest Muslim-majority nations in the world, ITV News’ Mahatir Pasha reports Few will forget the dramatic scenes that unfolded on the streets of Bangladesh in the summer of 2024. Students poured out in their thousands, demanding sweeping reforms, an end to corruption – and ultimately helping to bring down an increasingly authoritarian government. Sheikh Hasina, the country’s former prime minister, fled by helicopter as protestors stormed her residence – those protests inspired youth-led movements against corruption and nepotism far beyond Bangladesh’s borders. For tens of millions of young people,…